A recent incident of vandalism at a park in Atlantic has the City’s Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring, asking for the public to be vigilant in reporting any suspicious activity. Herring said there was graffitti on the nearly year-old playground equipment at the Pellett Park. The incident was observed by a kindergartener who didn’t realized what she was seeing. He said the girl spoke with a friendly man in his early 20’s who was doing the damage.

The girl told her mom about a man “drawing pictures” on the playground equipment, but no other description was available.” The family who reported the incident the next day, was visiting the area and were not from Atlantic. Herring said the spray painting was not the typical, vulgar work of vandalism you might expect to see.

He says “It’s not just junk…it’s not profanity…” He said “It’s art work that has some significance” to the person who did it. The same image was placed on a lot of pieces of equipment on the playground. The man indicated to the girl he learned how to “tag” — as graffiti is called – in jail.

Parks and Rec staff will try and remove the images. In the mean time, he asked the public to report any incidents of vandalism to the Police Department.